"The problem with education is school...." - Quote by Mark Twain

“Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity a geologic period.”

“I could forgive the boy, now, if he'd committed a million sins!”

“All generalizations are false, including this one.”

“A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns.”

“I learn immediately from any speaker how much he has already lived, through the poverty or the splendor of his speech. Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for the masonry of today. This is the way to learn grammar. Colleges and books only copy the language which the field and the work-yard made.”

“Knowledge is dead; the school, however, serves the living.”

“Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent.”

“I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn't cool.”

“I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just depressing to me. The poor little kids.”